Caribou Coffee in Gambrills Won't Switch to a Peet's

Employees and regular customers of the Caribou Coffee in the Village at Waugh Chapel in Gambrills have been waiting nearly a year for the renovation that would change the shop to a Peet’s Coffee.

Instead, staff members at the coffee shop last week began telling customers that plans for a month-long renovation and transition to Peet's Coffee have been canceled. The coffee shop will close at 3 p.m. Sunday, reports CapitalGazette.com.

Last spring the announcement came that most Caribou Coffee shops in the Baltimore area would become a Peet's Coffee and Tea, as the chain switches brands, Patch reported.  Caribou and Peet's were both purchased by the same German holding company, Joh. A Beckinser, in 2012. 

Caribou CEO Mike Tattersfield said last May that a total of 88 coffee shops in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois and eastern Wisconsin would convert to Peet's over the next 12 to 18 months. 

Peet's operates stores on the west coast and in Massachusetts, Illinois and Chicago. The greatest concentration of Peet's stores is in the San Francisco area, where it was founded in 1966.